Sunday, October 18, 2020

An evolutionary account for why men have to wait between orgasms

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Why Women Can Have Multiple Orgasms and Men Cannot. Glenn Geher. Psychology Today, Oct 18, 2020. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/d...

Highly convincing evidence that mental health factors are associated with obesity; suggestive evidence that a range of cognitive and psychosocial factors are also; associations tend to be small in statistical size

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The psychology of obesity: An umbrella review and evidence-based map of the psychological correlates of heavier body weight. Eric Robinson e...

Monopoly Myths: Is Concentration Eroding Labor’s Share of National Income?

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Monopoly Myths: Is Concentration Eroding Labor’s Share of National Income? Joe Kennedy. ITIF, October 13, 2020. https://itif.org/publication...

On Bari Weiss comments about the current situation (Stop Being Shocked, Oct 15 2020)

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On Bari Weiss comments about the current situation (Stop Being Shocked, Oct 15 2020 , https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/stop-...

A smaller proportion of males reported having a best friend (85% vs 98% of females); the quality of these relationships seemed to be a great deal less intimate than was the case for females

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Sex Differences in Intimacy Levels in Best Friendships and Romantic Partnerships. Eiluned Pearce, Anna Machin & Robin I. M. Dunbar. Adap...

Why do animals sometimes kill each other's offspring? Among hyenas, infanticide is a leading source of juvenile mortality; in all observed cases, killers were adult females, frequently higher-ranking than the mothers

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Infanticide by females is a leading source of juvenile mortality in a large social carnivore. Ally Kelsey Brown et al. , Oct 17 2020. https:...

We attribute our own phone use to positive social motives & overestimate our ability to multitask compared to others; we may fail to recognize the negative consequences of phone use

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Barrick, Elyssa M., Diana Tamir, and Alixandra Barasch. 2020. “The Unexpected Social Consequences of Diverting Attention to Our Phones.” Psy...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Safe Space Where to Imagine Futures

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Safe Space Where to Imagine Futures 0  Why this group Members of this group are sick of polarization and efforts to convert us to others...

Psychological targeting as an effective approach to mass persuasion—the adaptation of persuasive appeals to the psychological characteristics of large groups of individuals with the goal of influencing their behavior

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Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion. S. C. Matz,  View ORCID ProfileM. Kosinski, G. Nave, and D. J. ...

We present an integrative framework for mental disorders built on concepts from life history theory, and describe a taxonomy of mental disorders based on its principles, the Fast-Slow-Defense model

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Del Giudice, Marco, and John D. Haltigan. 2020. “An Integrative Evolutionary Framework for Psychopathology.” PsyArXiv. October 2. doi:10.312...

Below a certain point, feeling younger than one’s chronological age may be psychologically beneficial; beyond such point, it may be harmful

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An optimal margin of subjective age bias: Feeling younger to a certain degree, but no more, is beneficial for life satisfaction. Maria Blöch...

Discrimination at large, public colleges: Findings are inconsistent with the dispersed discrimination account but support the Pareto principle (roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the guys)

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Campbell, M. R., & Brauer, M. (2020). Is discrimination widespread? Testing assumptions about bias on a university campus. Journal of Ex...

How intelligence and related cognitive abilities are assessed in humans and animals and suggests a different way of devising test batteries for maximizing between-species comparisons

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Flaim, M., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2020). The comparative analysis of intelligence. Psychological Bulletin, Oct 2020. https://doi.org/10.103...
Friday, October 16, 2020

The Link Between Adaptive Memory and Cultural Attraction: New Insights for Evolutionary Ethnobiology

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The Link Between Adaptive Memory and Cultural Attraction: New Insights for Evolutionary Ethnobiology. Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Washingt...

Voice Pitch Seems A Valid Indicator of One’s Unfaithfulness in Committed Relationships

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Voice Pitch – A Valid Indicator of One’s Unfaithfulness in Committed Relationships? Christoph Schild, Julia Stern, Lars Penke & Ingo Zet...